Washing-machine



A. M. HILLS.

WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION HLED AuG.6.1917.

Patented M31'. I6, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEicE.

AGNES M. Hints, or sTANEIELD, oREGoN.

WASHING-MACHINE;

s'pecieeanon of Letters Patent. `lm'telntd' Mair. 16, 1920.

Application filed August 6, 1917. Serial No. 184,775.

Toall, wlw/1t t lmay concern. Y

Be it known that l, AGNES iM. HILLSI a citizen of the United tates, residingy at .ttanlielih county of TJmatilla, State of Oregcn, have invented certain new. and useful lmprm-'ements in lasliing-lt/lachines, of which the' following is a specification.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which therefore forms a part of this application for LettersgPatent, and in which Y The figure is a perspective view of my invention, parts being broken away to best illustrate the construction.

ln materializing my invention I have em'- ployed a reservoir 2, having therein and substantially concentric therewith a compartment 3, there being a space intermediate said compartment and said reservoir upon all sides and the bottom thereof.

The compartment is open at the top, and is there connected with flanges 4 to the reservoir, `said flanges closing the top of the spaces intervening between the sides of the compartment and the sides of the reservoir.

The bottom of said compartment is perforated with a plurality of orifices 5, as are likewise the sides thereof for a certain distance downward from the top, perforated a suitable locking mechanism, which latteris illustrated as a hasp 10 and staple 11.

Disposed within compartment 3 is a dasher composed of a plurality of alternately vertically inclined members 12 the adjacent of said members being integrally joined at the coincident edges thereof, thus forming a series of respectively inverted reentrant angles.

Suitable operating levers 1d are pivetally mounted upon rod 9', and at the opposite end thereof are connected by a handle 15, said levers being substantially parallel longitudinally to the inclined members l2.

Said membersl2 are perforated as shown at 13. n Upwardly projecting from dasher 12, and integral therewith, are hollow rods 16, which rods project above cover 7 through longitudinal slots-therein.

Depending from each of levers 14, and integral therewith, are rods 18, which rods respectively enter the hollow'rods 16, and Yare adjustably secured therein by means of pins i9 inserted in holes in said hollow rods 16 and their respective coacting. rods 18.

Because of thus being rigidly secured to levers 14 the dasher is given an .angular reciprocating motion identical therewith about the pivotal mounting point: thereof,

which motion causes the water to be forcedV in a plurality of streams out of the inverted angular troughs of said dasher over the material to be washed.

In operation the articles to be washed are placed in compartment 3, together with a suitable amount of water and soap, or other cleansing material, the cover 7 is closed and locked, and the dasher 12 is adjusted to suit the amount of material. to be washed within compartment 3 by means of pins 19.

The dasher 12 is then vertically reciprocated by operating levers lll, which reciprocation alternately compresses and releases the material being washed.

When the material is compressed some ofthe water or cleansing Huid is forced upward through orifices 13 in dasher 12 and some is forced downward through orifices 5 in the bottom of compartment 3.

The latter traverses the space intermediate compartment 3 and reservoir 2, and if sulficient, emerges therefrom through orifices 6 in compartment 3, and descends within said compartment in the form of small streams or spray.

The volume of the space intermediate compartment 3 and reservoir 2 is so great relatively to that of the combined orifices 5 in the bottom -of said compartment that a very slow velocity flow or circulation of water is obtained within said space, thus al# lowing the dirt removed from the material within compartment 3 to settle within said intermediate space, whence it may be withdrawn in any convenient manner, as by a faucet yor hose inserted in orifice 20 provided therefor.

My invention may be made of any size or shape and constructed of any material deemed convenient andsuitable for a device of this character, and while I have illustrated and described a form of construction and arrangement of parts found desirable in materializing my invention, I wish to include in this application all mechanical equivalents vor substitutes that Amay fairly be considered to come within the scope and purview of my invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having disclosed my invention so that others skilled in the art may be enabled to construct and to use the saine, what i Wish to clain'i as .new and to secure by Letters Patent is l. In a Washing inacnine, a reservoir; a compartment within said reservoir, attached thereto at the top, forming an inclosed space therebetween; a cover hinged to one side ot said compartment substantially at the point of juncture thereof with said reservoir; levers mounted upon the pin of said cover hinge; tines integral with said levers and downwardly projecting therefrom into said compartment; and a dasher adj ustably mounted upon said tines and composed of a series of pairs of relatively inclined interseoting planes, the lines of intersection thereof being in vertical planes parallel Vto vertical planes passing through the axes of t said levers, said dasher having an osoillating motion about said hinge pin.

2. In a washing machine a reservoir; a dasher Within said reservoir; a lever pivot vally mounted upon said reservoir above the Y saine; and means to cause said dasher to receive from said lever an ,angular reolpro ,eating inotion about said pivotal mounting point.

In Witness whereof I olann the foregoing 'as my wn, I hereunto aiiX my signature in 

